AUSTRALIA: Seven Ships

Irate Australian Laborites made passionate
stump speeches, last week, about what they called "a scandalous
sacrifice of valuable public property!"

Contented Australian Nationalists took the opposite view and praised
their smart Prime Minister, sleek Stanley Melbourne Bruce, who is so
modern that he has a private airplane garage in his basement and
frequently flies forth.

The act for which alert Prime Minister Bruce received blame & praise,
last week, was to sell for a total of £1,900,000 seven great ships
which cost some £7,500,000 when they were bought some five years ago by
the Commonwealth. The Prime Minister's defense was that...